Computing device for cheese-cutters.



No. 803,997. PATENTED NOV. 7, 1905.

H. F. DUNN. COMPUTING DEVICE FOR CHEESE GUTTERS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.27,1904.

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No. 803,997. PATENTED NOV. 7, 1905.

H. F. DUNN.

COMPUTING DEVICE FOR CHEESE GUTTERS. APPLICATION FILED 11.211904.

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UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

HENRY F. DUNN, OF ELWOOD, INDIANA. ASSIGNOR TO DUNN MANUFAC TUBINGCOMPANY, INDIA NA.

OF ANDERSON, INDIANA, A CORPORATION OF COMPUTING DEVICE FORCHEESE-CUTTERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 7, 1905.

Application filed April 27, 1904. Serial No. 205,187.

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I. HENRY F. DUNN, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Elwood, in the county of Madison and State of Indiana, havemade a certain new and useful Invention in Computing Devices for Cheese-Cutters; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the invention, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters and figures ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The drawings show the invention in perspective view.

The invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements incomputing devices designed to be used in connection with aliquot-partcomputing cheese-cutters having a table-rotating lever moving along ascale graduated for total weights. of different cheeses, said scalehaving an adjustable stop for limiting the movement of said lever; andthe invention has for its object theprovision of improved means forlocating the proper point upon the cheese-weight scale at which to setthe adjustable stop, so as to cut portions of constant value fromcheeses of different values.

With this object in view the invention consists in the novelconstruction and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cheese-cutter of thekind referred to. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the base, showing the newscale-bar. Fig. 3 is a plan view, on an enlarged scale, of the scale-baron the under side of the machine, shown in Fig. 2.

The cheese-cutter (shown herein for the purpose of illustrating thenature of the invention and its use) consists of the base 10, upon whichthere is mounted a rotary cheesesupport 11, adapted to hold and carrythe cheese that is to be cut into portions. Above it there is avertically-swinging knife 12, secured to the handle-bar 13, that ishinged at the rear of the machine for the purpose of slicing the cheese.

The cheese-support 11 is rotated by a handlever 15 and intermediategearing and mechanism between said hand-lever and cheesesupport, whichmay be in any form desired,

such as that shown in the patent to Frank P. Dunn, No. 790,564, May23,1905, Cheesecutter. A vertical arc-bar 16 is secured to the basealongside the path of movement of the lever 15. It has a permanent stop17, and an adjustable stop 18 is slidably mounted on said arc-bar. Thesestops limit the throw of the lever 15, and therefore the extent of movement of the cheeses resulting from each com plete throw of the lever 15.

In order to cut slices of equal weight from cheeses of varying weights,a scale of total weights of cheeses is provided on the vertical arc-barto indicate the proper position of the adjustable stop to effect suchresult. Thus the weight-scale shown in the drawings runs from twelve toforty pounds. If the cheese to be cut weighs thirty pounds, theadjustable stop is located at the numeral 30 on the are-bar and thenslices of the same weight will be cut by each throw of the lever aswould be cut from a cheese weighing fifteen pounds with the stop locatedat the numeral 15 on the scale. These weight-scale cheese-cutters areusually adapted to cut a quarter-pound at each throw of the lever.

The object of this invention is to combine with the foregoingcheese-cutter or any other cheese-cutter provided with a weight-scaleanother scale showing the total values of different cheeses alongsideand in registration with a weight-scale corresponding substantially tothe weight-scale on the arc-bar or other part of the cheese-cutter thatcontrols the operation of the cheese-cutter. This other scale is shownin Fig. 3. Referring to Fig. 3, the letter a designates a scale-barhaving marked thereon at one side thereof equallyspaced graduationsl)from 12 to 40, inclusive, andrepresenting total weights of differentcheeses, the spaces between said numbers being graduated for halves andquarters. Opposite these weight-graduations and on the other side of thescale-bar are equally-spaced total selling price or value graduations cfrom 240 to 800, inclusive. Other weights and selling prices can ofcourse be used.

In use the total selling price or money value of the cheese to be vendedis estimated and then found upon the scale 6. The cheese bar 18 by whichworks the cheese-table-rotating lever 15 at which to set the adjustablestop 18 in order to cut pieces of cheese of a predetermined unit ofvalue, such as five cents worth. It is obvious, therefore, that thescalebar shown in Fig. 3 or a similarly-arranged scale-bar showing bothWeight and total value graduations may be attached to or combined withany cheese cutter having a similar weight-scale for controlling itsoperation and by virtue of such combination cheeses may be cut intoportions according to the value thereof and so that it will cut portionsof constant value from cheeses of different value. In other words, thismachine will cut the cheese into portions either according to the weightor according to the value, as the customer may order.

In using the cheese-cutter shown the cheesesupport 11 is lifted up whenthe operator desires to see the scale-bar a below.

What Iclaim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a cheese-cutter provided with a scalerepresenting total weights of cheeses for regulating the operationthereof, of a scale-bar having on it substantially the same scale oftotal weights of cheeses as the scale that controls the operation of thecheese-cutter, and a scale representing total values of cheeses besideand registering with the total-weight scale on said scale-bar.

2. In a device for cutting cheeses or the like, a knife, a rotarycheese-support, alever for actuating the cheese-support, a scale-bar onwhich said lever moves, said scale-bar being provided with a scalerepresenting the total weights of cheeses, an adjustable stop on saidscale-bar for limiting the operation of said lever, and anotherscale-bar being provided with a total-weight scale on it ofsubstantially the same range as said last-mentioned total-weight scale,and a scale representing total values of cheeses located on saidlastmentioned scale-bar beside and registering with the total-weightscale thereon.

3. A scale-bar having a scale thereon representing total weights ofcheeses, andascale representing total valuesof cheeses, said two scalesbeing located beside each other and registering with each other.

4:. A scale-bar having marked thereon, at one side thereof a scale offigures, representing total weights of cheeses, and gradually increasingfrom one end to the other of said bar, and at the other side thereof ascale of figures representing total selling prices and values of cheesesalso increasing from one end to the other, and transverse graduatedmarks common to both of such scales of figures, substantially asspecified.

In testimony whereof I am); my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY F. DUNN.

Witnesses:

GEORGE P. LoUIso, FRANK P. DUNN.

